UNICEF, IPC-IG and UNOSSC together launched in February 2018 an online Community of Practice on South-South Cooperation for Children (CoP-SSC4C). It is hosted in the socialprotection.org platform, where it is the first online community dedicated primarily to South-South Cooperation. The community seeks to contribute to the mission of socialprotection.org while benefiting from existing mechanisms and tools for global collaboration and networking. Over the years, successful and innovative SSC initiatives have contributed to the advancement of children\’s issues, but the global development community is yet to fully leverage the power of SSC to deliver results transforming the lives of children and their families, especially the most vulnerable. The creation of a Community of Practice on SSC for Children builds on existing work and seeks to contribute to the global efforts to advance children’s rights and well-being through more strategic and sustainable approaches to sharing of good practices, evidence and knowledge and global learning and exchange of expertise and assistance.
The primary purpose of the CoP-SSC4C is to bring together SSC practitioners who are engaged in promoting children’s rights and welfare in different areas and from different parts of the world and provide them a space to connect, interact, share news, good practices and challenges. Broadly, the community seeks to contribute towards fully capitalizing the power of SSC to improve the lives of children and their families. The community further offers a library of resources and a series of webinars on how SSC contributes to delivering the SDGs for children.
